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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My
art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about
my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me
a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book
tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two
parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which
reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Monday, February 25, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My
art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about
my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me
a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book
tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two
parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which
reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My
art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about
my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me
a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book
tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two
parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which
reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

Friday, February 22, 2013

i’m the woman on the bus / her hair is on fire / she smells like lit skin

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My
art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about
my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me
a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book
tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two
parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which
reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

if only you could see the shape of the ice on my windowyou’d say it looked like jesus, you’d say it.

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Boulet says of his illness: The
trauma attached to a mental illness is a hard hand of cards to play and
not to taken lightly. I still feel the psychological wounds of
schizophrenia deep in my bones. With this said, it seems to me that no
human being lives their life without psychological wounds of one sort or
another. This is the price of being human. Perhaps our wounds are
what make us empathetic and truly useful to others.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My
art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about
my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me
a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book
tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two
parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which
reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

even you with your soft handsdon’t really want to be standing on the other side of this door, do you?while outside they whisper: she’s a loony, loony, lunatic

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Friday, February 15, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Boulet says of his illness: The
trauma attached to a mental illness is a hard hand of cards to play and
not to taken lightly. I still feel the psychological wounds of
schizophrenia deep in my bones. With this said, it seems to me that no
human being lives their life without psychological wounds of one sort or
another. This is the price of being human. Perhaps our wounds are
what make us empathetic and truly useful to others.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My
art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about
my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me
a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book
tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two
parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which
reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Monday, February 11, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Boulet says of his illness: The
trauma attached to a mental illness is a hard hand of cards to play and
not to taken lightly. I still feel the psychological wounds of
schizophrenia deep in my bones. With this said, it seems to me that no
human being lives their life without psychological wounds of one sort or
another. This is the price of being human. Perhaps our wounds are
what make us empathetic and truly useful to others.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My
art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about
my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me
a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book
tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two
parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which
reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.
MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Boulet says of his illness: The
trauma attached to a mental illness is a hard hand of cards to play and
not to taken lightly. I still feel the psychological wounds of
schizophrenia deep in my bones. With this said, it seems to me that no
human being lives their life without psychological wounds of one sort or
another. This is the price of being human. Perhaps our wounds are
what make us empathetic and truly useful to others.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.
MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My
art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about
my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me
a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book
tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two
parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which
reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A, explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Boulet says of his illness: The
trauma attached to a mental illness is a hard hand of cards to play and
not to taken lightly. I still feel the psychological wounds of
schizophrenia deep in my bones. With this said, it seems to me that no
human being lives their life without psychological wounds of one sort or
another. This is the price of being human. Perhaps our wounds are
what make us empathetic and truly useful to others.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Laurie MacFayden, "Where the Scream is Waiting to be Screamed", acrylic on canvas

with accompanying text by Amy Willans:

close that gaping hole that rots in my chestwhere the scream is waiting to be screamed

Fighting Normal brings together the work
of visual artist Laurie MacFayden and poet Amy Willans. This exhibition, in Gallery B,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with awareness of an altered world
by Richard Boulet and Sue Seright in Gallery A until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

MacFayden describes her process this way: For
me, art-making is not merely a process of visual expression but a
merging with the divine spark/vibrational energy that I consider to be
the creative process. The resulting work is hard to categorize: I paint
serene, post-impressionist landscapes and I paint boisterous,
abstract-espressionist colour bombs. I paint electric skies and lively,
dancing gardens; my urban and “inner” landscapes are more visceral. I
apply paint with a vengeance, using brushes, knives, electric
toothbrush, rolling pin … dabbling, flinging, dripping.

Friday, February 1, 2013

awareness of an altered world brings together the work
of Richard Boulet and Sue Seright. This exhibition, in Gallery A,
explores the impact of mental health issues. It runs concurrently with Fighting Normal
by Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans in Gallery B until March 2, 2013.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, February 16, but otherwise is
open from Wed-Fri, 10-4 and Sat 12-4.

Seright describes her process this way: My art is one way to break free of the stigmas and allow it to speak about my own personal journey with mental health challenges. It also gives me a way to visual track where I have been and where I might go. The book tells my story within a story. Like Bipolar ll, it is composed of two parts: the original book itself and the carved away pieces which reconfigure the second story to make a whole.

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